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Superfast ‘Maglev’ Trains Coming to the US
Jan 26, 2010
Read More: http://www.breakitdownblog.com/super...ing-to-the-us/
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_fasttrack/2/
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The Obama administration has agreed to an $8 billion dollar infusion into the development and deployment of the fledging infrastructure in the US hoping to encompass California, Texas the Midwest, Northeast and Florida with maglev-based train networks.
- Initial plans for the United States networks put completion dates for most of the projects in roughly 2020-2025 timeframe at an average of $20 billion each (California’s “ultimate” plan of Sacramento to San Diego tops out at $45 million). This won’t be a cheap project and during tough economic times could prove to be big red targets for lawmakers being pushed to cut budgets.
- The reality is that the United States has been sorely lacking a sufficient mass-transit system for years; and understandably so. The US is huge, sprawling anything across it at the tune of $12 million per mile is either never going to happen or take half-a-century to build out.
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California Maglev Deployment Program PDF
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